Question follow-through · 37569
Public Houses: Business Rates and Employers' Contributions
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2025 to Question 32146 on Public Houses: Business Rates and Employers’ Contributions, for what reason the median rateable value is used.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 12 Mar 2025
- Target answer date
- 14 Mar 2025
- Answer
- 19 Mar 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
12 Mar 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2025 to Question 32146 on Public Houses: Business Rates and Employers’ Contributions, for what reason the median rateable value is used.
14 Mar 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Mar 2025
Answer published
The Transforming Business Rates consultation used the median RV of a pub (£16,800) to illustrate the amount the average pub is estimated to save in business rates liabilities (over £3,300) from RHL relief being extended at 40% for 2025-26 rather than bein...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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